Bright's Creek Mountain Resort in the Blue Ridge Mountains is expanding to include a gun club and shooting grounds. Image courtesy of Bright's Creek.

MILL SPRING, NC – Bright’s Creek, the upscale residential golf and sporting resort community overlooking North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, has begun the development of its 200+ acre indoor and outdoor luxury shooting grounds, The Beretta Gun Club and Shooting Grounds at Bright’s Creek.

The Beretta Gun Club, which is expected to open in the spring of 2016, will feature a variety of ammunition sporting activities designed by championship shooters such as Anthony I. Matarese Jr., and will include: two fully-automated 20-plus-station championship sporting clay fields; FITASC fields; Five Stand, five-person steel plate challenge courses; a tactical shoot house; skeet, trap and wobble stations; archery range; and multiple shooting ranges varying from 25 to 500 yards.

“I think that members and guests are going to be amazed with the selection of activities available at The Beretta Gun Club,” said Omar Botero, Partner and CEO of Alianza Trinity Holdings. “We envisioned a club like no other, where like-minded sporting enthusiasts can enjoy the thrill of ammunition sports along with a wide array of entertainment offerings, fine dining options and family-oriented amenities and programing.”

With a mission to offer guests the sense of camaraderie and ambiance that comes with a country club environment, The Beretta Gun Club and Shooting Grounds will offer VIP members exclusive services, including: access to an on-site gun valet, secure gun vault, camo-cart for clay course usage and firearm rentals.

The luxury shooting facility will also offer firearm education and safety courses for first-time shooters as well as tactical and defense training.

“We are really excited to see how The Beretta Gun Club is going to enhance Bright’s Creek growing community,” said Gilberto Iragorri, Partner and Chief Business Development Officer of Alianza Trinity Holdings. “The community has grown so much in recent years, and we believe a luxury gun club is going to draw in a whole new demographic.”

The Beretta Gun Club is the culmination of a strategic partnership between Bright’s Creek developer Alianza Trinity Holdings and Beretta, the oldest and most recognized firearms manufacturing company in the world.

“Bright’s Creek was the ideal location for The Beretta Gun Club and Shooting Grounds, said Ian Harrison, Director of the Beretta Trident Program. “With over 200 acres of space, the facility is going to feature a variety of options that gun and hunting enthusiasts can’t find anywhere else.”

Bright’s Creek has been undergoing expansion since 2013 when the mountain resort was acquired by Alianza Trinity Holdings. In addition to the soon-to-be gun club, the family-friendly community features a top-rated Tom Fazio golf course, a luxurious equestrian center, a lodging community and club house with future plans to construct a swim and fitness club, a wine tasting room, a children’s activity center and multiple outdoor entertainment areas.

Bright’s Creek is nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Western North Carolina. This exclusive 4,792 + acre property features home sites with breathtaking views of a Tom Fazio-designed, world-class golf course and scenic mountain ranges. Bright’s Creek offers a refined, luxurious, and family-friendly lifestyle and features an equestrian center, several miles of riding trails, a members’ lodge, and lush hiking trails. Acquired by Miami-based real estate developer Alianza Trinity Holdings in August 2013, Bright’s Creek features nearly $100 million worth of infrastructure already in place. New amenities will include a social clubhouse, swim and fitness center, expanded equestrian center, premier gun club, children’s activity center, teepee village, tree houses and a wine tasting room. For more information, please visit www.brightscreek.com.

Published November 17, 2015